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by the Council—the cries or" Viva el Rc7, 2 , 14 , e5, nuestro Cutholico Allonarca, Fernando Septhno, y sa mcqnanimo aliudo el Rey de irt Grun Bretanu,"-- resou . nded in the Casa Capitutar, and were so(in re echoed by the whole City—and the imperious Offi cers of his Imperial 'Majesty were committed to du rance vile, in the Caze ma tt es o f L a G u i ra, an d hi s Imperial brig made prize of and sent to Porto_ Ca socam aUIS DICZAL 7AI.3UM AUDIAT ? I vello. t.al Atia:v --1 Gottenburgh, t Malta, 2 Dublin, I Water tcttiati. Gottdnburgli, I Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols - - 66} Uranium . ze dis. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1-808. REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA. Letters have been received in town from Holland, which state, that accounts of a very regent date bad been received- from Konigsburgh, of a Revolution having taken place in Russia. The Emperor ALEX• eNDZit is said to have been arrested; and- it is also tickled, that this Empress Dowager is at tbe, head of we Insurreaion. No official intelligence has been received of this ',vent, but we think it highly probable, and we have reason to know that it was the fish of a very considerably party in Russia that the Empress Dowager should be placed at the bead of the Go vernmen t. The Letters from Holland also mention that mea sures of extraordinary severity were daily expected there for the purpose of preventing all intercourse with this Country. It was yesterday reported, that his Royal Highness the Duke ot,Yoax was to take the command of the Army in Portugal, that Lord MVLGRAVEwas to be the second in command, and that the MarqWs 'WEL LESLEY was to succeed to the Admiralty. We be lieve there is no foundation whatever for this report. " The colours of the two Nations were soon dis played on the forts at La Guira, under a general sa lute of all the heavy artillery. The Acasta, at an chor in the road,' repeated the signals and tokens of alliance and festivity, and the Officers who landed were received and treated with the greatest marks of respe& and' attention." Lieutenant BELL . arrived yesterday at the Admi ralty, from the Havannah, with accounts that the Spanish Government there had declared for FERD:- WAND the Vllth ; that they had proclaimed war against the French, and that all the French Resi dents were quitting the bland for America.. He left it on the 16th of August, and - on-that day there arrived at the Havannah a Vessel frOM Vera Cruz, with ziecounts that the Governor there had also de clared against the French. Yesterday Paris and Dutch Papers reached town, the former to the 25 t 11, and the latter to the 2gtl: ult. Their contents are of considerable importance . BUONAPARTE left St. Cloud privately, on the morn ing of the 23d, accompanied by TALLEYR AND, who, we are sorry to see, has resumed his official situation, and CHAMPAGNY. It was supposed that he was going in the first instance to Erfurth, for the purpose of meeting the Emperor ALEXANDER. To this conference the Emperor of AUSTRIA was also to be invited, and Count RomitNzow, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, set out for Vienna the beginning of last month, to prevail upon the Empe ror FRANCIS to meet his Sovereign and BUONAPARTE. If this really were the object of his mission, it is not very pro.b.ible that he will succeed. The Moniteur of the 20th, contains the Speech of BUONAPARTE 10 the Troops .on the Parade we have extra4.-led the Speech at length, and our Readers will find that it fully answers the character which we gave of it. He threatens Spain with the severest vengeance, and boasts tbat in a short time 2)0,000 of his Troops will have crossed the Pyrennees. That Bvowatl'AO'Z make great exertions for the subjugation of Spain/ We this morning received Barbadoes Paper's, from which we have made the following interesting ex- traas :--- there can now be no doubt ; but we are convinced that he cannot bring any thing like a force of 2.00,000 men to aCt against Spain. The menacing attitude in which Austria has placed herself, evidently gives him great uneasiness, and though he may prevail upon the weak ALEXANDER to assemble his Armies on the Frontiers of Austria, and in some degree to hold her in check, still we are convinced that he. dare not send so large a portion of his Army 'to Spain. Indeed we do not believe he has so many disposeable Troops, nor if he had, could he main tain them without magazines ; and it is perleelly well' known that he 114 not formed magazines for so larger an Army. The MonitTur indeed says, that 10,000 waggons are to be employed, a la Marlbo rough, to carry provisions; but it must be recolleCt ed that these waggons would require at least 40,000 horses, and very large magazines of forage indeed would be necessary to support such a number of horses, independent of those belonging to the Ca valry. The Monitear at - leas to give an account of the operations in Portugal, and pretends to extra& the account from a London Paper. This account is from the beginning to the end a fabrication, and of course represents the French as - having been vic torious. " BARBADOES, APRIL 13.—At Cumana, the Spaniards were beyond measure rejoiced . at the pros pea afforded by the Revolution, of promoting the interests and extending the Commerce of the South American Colonies, as well as of breaking the fo reign yoke under which their parent State had near ly sunk ; and a Spanish Officer arrived at Trinidad from thence states, that the French Brig Serpent, charged with the dispatches from BUONAPARTE re spetting the cession of these Colonies, had only ar rived two hours previous to the iicaste Frigate, dis patched by fir ALEXANDER COCHRAN E in cense - - quence, of the advices froM Cadiz. " He says the British Officer (Capt. Beaver%) in stantly presented himself before the Supreme Court of Audience then sitting in deliberation on BUONA TARTE'sdispatches, and was received with a general acclamation of applause by them, to the discomfiture and chagrin of the French Officers who were present, urging a compliance to the mandate of their Master; that one of these Officers, using some intemperate threat, so exasperated an Aid-de-Camp of the Spanish Commandant, that he drew his sabre and cut him down in the presence of thq,whole Coun cil: and that such was the general indignation against the Frenchmen there, that had it not been for the interference of the British Officers, they would al l have been sacrificed. To this account the 'Trinidad Gazette of the 20th ult. furnishes us with the follow ing BU(MtAPARTE has adopted a new expedient for augmenting his military force, and, at the same time, to retain the people of France in their present state of abjea subjeaion. He has ordered his Gerthau vas sals to furnish him with 100,000 men, who are to be taken into the pay of France, and to wear the French uniform, and thoy are to be stationed for the most part in the interior of France. Thus, while the youth of France are dragged froM their homes to fight for the aggrandisement of BUONAYARTE'S family,loo,ooo Germans ate to be poured into France ; and thus while he employs Frenchmen to suhjugate Spain, he employs Germans to retain France in slavery. • 7i By - a Launch which arrived y'esterday evening from Barcelona, we learn that a French National Brig (no doubt one of the Exp;esses mentioned Lord COLLINGWoOD'i Dispatches) had arrived at La Guira, with a number of Officers on board, Civil and Military, bearing orders from BUONAPAUTE, ganaioned - by the King, his prisoner, to supersede the present adminiStration of • Government, and to establish L 4 reign of "the new dynasty in that Pro vince. , , Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses SO PHIA, AUGUSTA, . IVlAav,,and AMELIA, accotriPa-' niOd by Ladies How and THY NNE, and General - FiTZROY, went to St. Ot4orge's _Chapel., ilia-Ilea: a sermon. The ... QUEEN and Princess ELIZABETH heard Di vine service performed in the Palace by her MAJES TY'S Chaplain. The King of WIRTEMBURGH has recovered frurn a violent fever, which, for several days; .threatened .to be fatal. Bulletins were daily issued from Ludwigs burgh, Signed by his three physicians,DUVEßNOY, KLEIN, and REUSS, communicating the state of his disorder. The property of the Marquis ROMANA has been sequestered at Hamburgh, amounting, it is said, to 200,000 marks banco. His papers, &v. which were deposited at the ,house of Mr. SroctimEcu, have likewiSe been seized. The Genoa Gazette, of the 30th tilt. states, -that NAPOLEON has demanded that the Austrian ports in the Adriatic may be shut against American vessels. Mr. KENNEDY, Secretary to Sir CHARLES COT : TON, has been app o inted A gen t Vict ua ll er at Li s b on. ment;, to deliberate on the steps to he tak en in so ' difficult an emergency : His Majesty' s Ship D rome d ary i s arr i ve d .at Ports mouth from Antigua. "The . Council had accordingly -assembled, and His Majesty's Ship Thames sailed from Malta on were sitting when the Afcasta's dispatches arrived to the sth of August, with about .50 sail of vessels Majesty's Ship P o mon e , w i t h a b out 2 7 sa il o f confi• m their opi n i o n in the r e si s tan ce • Wh i ch i t seems under convoy for Engl a nd. it wai their determination to oppose to His the attempts vessels from Gibraltar and England, were off Cape el the Usurper. They were read with acclamations de Gatte on the 28th ultimo. " The dispatches had been forwarded tbCaraccas, but the Chiefs. of that Province, men of sound judg ment and approved fidelity, having ,been previously put h p , ysstssiou of the Band° of the Supreme Junta of Seville, dated lath May (which hfiel been for warded by this Government), weighing well in the scale of prudence- the dangers of precipitation in a matter of so .4nuch importance to the State, had called a General Assembly of the Heads of Depart- NAVAL NEWS. PLY MOITTI-1, SEPT. 30.--Sailed the King Gene and Joseph hired Cutters fur the Channel. Fleet;. Scorpion Sloop of War for the coast of Spain ; Crgiie Schooner to the Westward ; and Pilchard Schooncf ? to the Channel Fleet. OCT. I.—Arrived the Sybille Frigate, Capt. Ur- TON, from Cork; and _hanger Transport from Tor bay. • Sailed La Loire Frigate, Capt. SCROMBERG, on a cruize. DEAL, OCT. 2.—Arrived the Speculator Lugger, after parting with her Convoy of Transports, with, the Spanish troops on board, in lat. 49. 31. N. lqpg.-, 4. 48. W. under convoy of the Racoon and Sparrow hawk, with a fair wind for Spain ; and the Beticy, QULNTON, from the River Rio Janeiro. Sailed the Phcenia,, HILL, for the River. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 2.—On Friday arrived the Bra%en Sloop of War, Captain SUCPHEARD, with a Convoy of Transports, which have French prisoners* on board, from Portugal ; and the Cormorant Sloop of 'War, Cap . tain HUGHE, with the Lord Nel,ion, Henry Ikellington, Brunswick, and Doris Transports, and Helena Prize, from the Cape of Good Hope. Sailed the Lily Sloop of War, with a convoy for Newfoundland. Yesterday arrived the Diomede Frigate, Captain SYKES, from off Cherbourg, and the Dromedary Store Ship, WILLtAbz SCOTT, Master, from the West Indies. Arrived this Day, L'Espiegle Sloop of War from Cork ; and Indignant Gun Brig from the Downs. FALMOUTH, OCT. I.—The Princess Elizabea,'_ Packer, Capt. KIDD, with Mails from Malta, &c. arrived here yesterday evening. She sailed from Malta 3ith August. His Majesty's Ship Thames, 36 guns, sailed from thence on the ad, with a convoy or 50 Sail for England. On the 15th, spoke his Ma jesty's Ship Pylades, 18 guns, on a cruize off Cape Bon. On the 28th ult. off Cape de Gatte, spoke his Mlijesty's Ship Pomona, 38 guns, Captain BAtt:- . ' Liz, with 27 sail under convoy, bound to Malta.— On the 31st, Cape de Gatte bearing N.N.E. 6 miles, spoke his Majesty's Ships Ocean, Northaniberlan4, ,. Terrible and Excellent, from Gibraltar, bound up. — Arrived at Gibraltar on the 3d inst. found there his Majesty's Ships Atlas, Bulwark, Fame, Repulse, trolontier, and Alacrity. His Majesty's Ship's Cresar and Alledta, so guns each, arrived there same day, and sailed again for England on the sth. His Ma jesty's Brigs Scout and Grasshopper arrived at Gibral tar on the 4th, with Transports, having on board two battalions of the Royal Veteran Corp.: from off Lisbon, they bad been at anchor for 3 weeks off the Tagus. The Princess Elizabeth Packet sailed from Gib raltar on the 6th, and on the 14th, in lat. 38. 28. long. 18. 25. spoke the Brig Ann, from Madeira, bound to London ; on the 25th inst. lat. 48. 1. long .: Ig. 25. spoke the Ship Lion, DAwsoN, from Water ford, bound . to Gibraltar, with kiss of main and wizen-topmast. H. M. Ship Seahorse was refitting, at Malta. The following are the dimensions of the. Turkish Frigate Baddin Za . llier, taken by her near the entrance of the Gulf of Salonica. Length of gnn-dca 166 ft. gin. Etrerne'broatn - qt tt. ii in. had mounted when taken, 52 pieces of brass cannon, some of them .of very large calibre ; 170 of the crew were killed, and a great number wounded, and the hull shot through like a honey-comb. Sailed the Bideford, -- for London, and ham, PROPER, for Poole. We have been favoured with the following ac count of the Expedition assembled at this place. Lieut.-General Sir David Baird, Commander in Chief, Ma. yor-General Marinitighain, second in command, Major-Ge neral Warde, Major-General Niackenzie ; Brigacti;:r-Ge neral Slade, Brigadier-General Crauford, Col. LPUrban, Deputy- Adjutant-6 eneral. ikleclical Staff —Deputy lnspeaor flogg, PhysicianS Moore. wood and Faulkenor, Stall Surgeons Forbes., Plenderleath, Emery, Draper, and Cooke, Apothecary Lewes, Deputy- Purveyor Ernmerson, 'Fen Hospital Nlates. The troops consist 61 a detachment of Royal Artillery, ditto of ilorc Artillery, ditto of the Waggon Train, sat batta lion ist Foot Guards, 3d - battalion Royals, zd battalion .14th Foot, zd battalion z3d, or Welch Fuzileers, Ist bat talion abtli, 3d battalion 27th, ad battalion 31st, tst bat talion 4311, Ist battalion sist, ad battalion styth, ist bum lion 75111, 2d battalion h ISt, and tine 95111 regiment com piete. SHEERNESS, OCT. ' I.—The Rzngdove Sloop of War, Capt. ANDREWS, arrived from the Downs, and came into harbour to refit. Went out of harbour to the Little-More the Exer tion Gun-brig, Li —.CUL FORBES. • • Sailed His Majesty's Ship Ned Elvin Capt.O'CoN NOR, with Transports, &c. under convoy to the Baltic. Arrived His Majesty's Ship Queen. By the Naval Returns corrected to the Ist. inst. there appear to be—at Sea, 92 Sail of the Line, 12 from 50 to 44, 130 Frigates, and 334 smaller Vessels: The total number of Ships, in commission, amounts to 164 Sail of the Line, 22 from 50 to 44, 1 79 Frigates, 240 Sloop,, and 233 Gun-brigs. There. are also, in Ordinary, and Repairing for service, 46 Sail of the Line, 13 from 50 to 44, 56 Frigates, 49 Sloop;, and 15 Gun-brigc, &e,—.and there are' . Building, 60 Sail of the Line, 15 Frigates, 22 Sloopsi and 6 Gun-brigq, .3cc. ; making a Grathl Total of. 1121 Vessels of War, GET7II !ROM Me" oriPlert Ig OUR .1.5.1,A73101:c 07f Tar COAST OF CATALONIA. " Roses, August ?6. cc . Having arrived at Minorca with convoy trout Messina, we were sent to Majorca with dispatch to the Governor, requiring assistance for the Cata lans:- He had 4000 disposable troops ; but he refused 'to- send one of them, ahhough, by su doing, lie would doubtless have prevented the return of the French to Barcelona. I have had the pleasure since to learn that he is to,be superseded in his command , We have been engaged in carrying stores, &c. from Minorca to the Continent, and have delivered the greatee part on board the Magnificent here, Lcid CoeHaA:la (at whose disposal they were placed) havingleft the coast. " Three deserters from an Italian regiment of cavalry arrived here softie days since from the Freud.) army- ; they state that the enemy suffered consider able foss in a night sortie from Gerona, when the Patriots drove them -from their entrenchments, and compelled them to retire,leaving the ,whole of their :camp ;equipage, &c. behind them—part retired to •Fig - neras, the rest to Barcelona. The corps, when united, amounted to Goo men. .. " The French garrison in Figueras now amounts to about antk) men; they are successfully occupied in laying in Stoees of all kinds—they )evy corn front the neighbouring towns, and buy •the small stock of pi °visions at one-third more than the market pricey in order to induce the coontry people to carry pro duce to them : the consequence is, that provisions are rather scarce here, and the market does O t produce a fowl, or various other articles - lately abuo dant in it. Fine %%ine, five years old, .sells here at 81. per pipe, new wine raiher cheaper. Several hundred pipes are, I hear, about to be sent to Oporto , whence they will reach England, under the reduced duties of Portugal wine. _ The peasants are very zealous in their hostility ..to the French, but some of the higher orders have appeared to me deficient in patriotisM." MINORCA, AUG. 12.—A dreadful storm was 0- perienced here on the I:2th ; during: it, the Satan , of 74 guns, had nine men 'killed by . lightning, ° P her jib-boom, while they were in the aft of furling sails ; two of them fell into the water, and limpet/ 1 " .ately sunk, the others remained in the positions its which they were struck. . Great quantities of stores and ammunition have ,been sent from. hence by the " 4 / a ciity, Ilad oth er British croizers, to the support of the Patriots in Ca talonia. The harvest here haS been very abundant, -added to which nine vessels, loaded with wheat, ar rived here a Jew days ago from Messina—but Iri an the ravages of the - French in . Catalonia, it is 1 0°- - bable, that all the provisions we can furnish will be wanted there. . Eight thousand five hundred and fifty pounds weight of Peruvian bark,, were on Friday entered at the Custom-house, by license, for Holland ; toge ther with various drugs to a considerable amount. The culture of hemp is rapidly extending in C a ' nada ; and there is much reason to hope, that in 3 few years we shall, through this medium, be render ed independent of the foreign markers. On Friday night Mr. Frsunit, one of his Majesty's Messengers, left town with dispatches for Srato• . h On Saturday ev en i ng Mr' PA-Vicoxs set o ut w'" dispatches to the Court of Stockholm. Yesterday Lieutenant HELL, of his Majesty Navy, arrived at the Admiralty, with dispatch es from the West Indies. The Neptune, of 98 guns, Sir THOMAS W I LLIAM S ' . and the Poinpje, of 80, Captain CoCKBURN, ha t '`" sailed from Plymouth, for Barbadoes.—lt is under stood that they are g o n e t o co - o perate in an attac k on the Island (1 Mal iinique. A very large Medical Statf.is at Plymouth, Pre paring to go out to our armies in Portugal and Sp Bite. Dr. HOOO, Deputy Inspeaor of Hospitals, is at head of it. He has under him six Physicians, I ' l: s' Staff Surgeons, and six Apothecaries, several So r " ,veyors, their Deputies, and Clerks; and 24 k i°s` pital Mates. A large Conirnissariat Staff is likewise going ° tit ; there are ab o ut 1 Commissaries, with a nuatoer f Deputies, Clerks, &c. all under Messrs. Az lOTT/ 3 / 1 ERSKINE', Adjutant-Commissaries G neral. THE THEATRE.—On S a tu r d a y, M r . ELLi srror.4 — for the'first tune perfornied the character of Rule a if y'e and have a ,Life, at Drury -LAO l tie' 00 tie. It seems t o h ave b een sup p ose d , t h at bcca „ he very suc cess f u ll y ex hiLi te d A ranza, i n , The 1 161 ,' 11 e. e ' Moon, that h e wou ld •b e equal l y so in Leal- 1 characters, however, are very different. -ara" never imitates the simpleton, arid in his rader he is a man with the pride of. high birthe--- Leon, as the only ch:uiee for obtaining a rich wife ' is obliged to appear as little better than a took. though he is to display something of his real go on sense and shrewdness under the disguise. Wthe rl a he has accomplished his purpose he is not , t ; manifest the pride of nobility, but to re pel "'- insolence and contempt of those . who consider h i° as an upstart and an adVenturer, es well as .ttl t r; Rune the privileges of a husband. Hence, tiien; two characters are Very different,. anclam Actor ~ i ~ succeed in the one without displaying equal to e ',„ l ,, in the other. Such was the case of M. Et,t.to_!:, It will require more reflection and prae.,lice pr per Cita he can claim the same approbation in Lean, deservedly obtained in Aranza, though-h e certat t "' was entitled, on the whole, .to a commendatorY port. In the simple scenes ,of. Lei-m broad, and perhaps a little "too:coarse ; and as Leon says, he " casts his' clotlif i ,off and , himself," there was somewhat too much 0 1 affeded stateliness Which almost invariably c'hor'd:" . twixes his ading. The truth is, Mr. ELLIsTos is ambitious of versatility, :lea .he hardly allceAs self time and due consideeation of any of tile vall' Ar i, characters in which he . appeals. Joan %:*; 3L ' L I BANNlsTztrhave 'been seen s o often ill the .Ctipk.k:Yeaptain, e only..need be ", s i played° with their usual s pi r i t an d effect. --A house. Friday night a man and woman who wereltsie e P, in a barge laden with bones, off Fickle - Stairs, bet , Aeen two vesieis, were wiraculoost) slv ( ci . fidtufbeitig drowned, in consequence of toe 0 1 ' 1 ,1 dne-of the ihips dreaming that th e barge ;LS .with the people: on board. H e awok e a t the inst , ":; ; hitunped upon "deck, found the barge attuailY r i 'ai,ead . fureliuM;and .was just in time to save, the :11 ` , ' aißiVonaau. PP 6